Coping.



R. S. CADE.

COPING.

' APPLICATION FILED APR. 23. 19I5.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

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Patented Api. 11, 1916.

Application iiled April 23.y 1915. Serial No, 23,367.

To all lwhom t may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT S. CADE, av

citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Coping, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to coping for walls, and has more especial reference to a novel form of coping adapted to be applied to a wall where said wall forms an abutment for a terrace or lawn of greater height than the wall.

The object of my invention is to provide a coping adapted to be applied to a wall, where said wall forms an abutment for a terrace or lawn of greater height than the wall.

Another object is to provide a coping adapted to be applied to a wall by means of which a terrace may be extended over the entire top surface of the wall.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportions, size and minor details of construction may be made within the scope of the appended claim, without departing from the spirit or sacriicing any Vof the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings: Figure l is a sectional perspective view of a portion of an embankment and a breast-wall with my improved coping in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a section of the coping.

dSimilar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

In the drawing the numeral l indicates a breast-wall built against an embankment 2. The coping is made in sections such as illustrated in Fig. 2, each section comprising the rectangular ledge 3, which is adapted to extend across the top of the wall l and is provided with the elongated slot 4 located substantially through the longitudinal center of said ledge portion, and the flange 5 which is provided along the outer edge of the ledge portion, said flange preferably forming an obtuse angle with the ledge portion as shown. The flange 5 is preferably provided with a longitudinal rib 6 along its upper outer edge and anyr suitable form of decoration may be applied to the outer face of the flange for the purpose of ornamentation.

The sections of coping are placed in longitudinal alinement upon the top face of the wall, the slots 4 in said sections registering with a longitudinal groove 7, which is located in the top of the wall 1. Cement or similar material, as indicated at 8, is poured through the slots 4, filling said slots and the groove 7 and when the cement sets or,

hardens the sections of coping are rigidly held in position from the top Of the wall, in the position shown in Fig. l. If desired, the sections of coping may be bound together at their extremities by means of mortar or similar material.

When the mortar or cement used in binding the sections of coping to the wall has hardened the coping may be filled in with earth, thus extending the terrace across the entire top surface of the breast-wall as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. By this construction it is possible to increase the size of the lawn considerably, or if desired a flower bed may be located adjacent the iange of the coping. For the purpose of preventing moisture 1n the earth above the coping from running down upon the rear side of the breast-wall and possibly causing the same to crack or break, a series of drain apertures 9 are located at intervals along the ledge 3, the lower extremities of said apertures being located beyond the outside face of the breast wall, thus causing any moisture which accumulates above the coping to be carried off away from the breast-wall.

Although, the drawings and above specication disclose the best mode in which I have contemplated embodying my invention I desire to be not limited to the details of such disclosure, for, in the further practical application of my invention, many changes in form and construction may be made, as circumstances require or experience suggests,

without departing from the spirit of the inralty of draining apertures extending have hereunto subscribed my name in the through said ledge, the lower extremities of presence of two witnesses. said apertures being along t e outer edge of the ledge and an upwardly projecting ROBERT S' CADE' 5 flange located along the outer edge of said Witnesses:

ledge. J. H. BISHOP, Intestmony that I claim the above, Il SUMA BORON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

